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USFamily.Net National Pool
To check for National Service plans in your city Click Here.
For 1-city plan info Click Here.
For 2-city plan info Click Here.
For Traveling plan info Click Here.
USFamily.Net presently onlys offer its patented unlimited priority sytem services in Minnesota and some surrounding areas. This is the best technology available and only available from USFamily.Net.
Until USFamily.Net expands its technology everywhere you can still enjoy our spam-free mail and other wonderfull services through standard Internet technology used by all other Internet companies, but at better prices and with better features due to our lower overhead and profit margins.
The national pool
is shared by many or most national Internet providers
is a standard shared internet environment and does not allow for dedicated usage
has a 150 hour hard limit per month to prevent abuse of the shared environment
is unlimited in that there are never extra charges, but does have rules to stop dedicated usage
We offer 1-city $8.99, 2-city $11.99 (home, and winter or summer home), and national traveling $15.99 (any cities)
Our national pool is a shared, contracted service, used by many (perhaps even most) large ISPs throughout the country. Because the supplier does not have access to technology such as our patented priority system they control abuse of the "shared dialup" environment in a different way. They have an "abuse detection system". This abuse detection system automatically and permanently terminates accounts if a user:
- sends SPAM
- simultaneously connects more than one computer
- maintains continuous connections
- uses more that 150 hours in a calendar month
If an abuse is detected that account is terminated until the end of the calendar month. There is an additional $10 registration fee if the user needs to get reactiveated before the end of the month and if frequent abuse occurs it will result in permanent termination. We have no control over these rules or the abuse detection system of the national supplier. Most other Internet provider have these same rules but some are not up front with describing them.
To avoid being classified as a "continuous connection" (which is against the contract for all ISPs and requires dedicated Internet service) make sure no session is over 4 hours without hanging up for 15 minuts before dialing in again and avoid deliberate, automatic, or accidental connection patterns that cause high usage.
We have found very few users to ever have trouble with the abuse detection system. Users that need dedcated service should get DSL or cable.
Here are our National Plan Choices